Visiting with Dr. Ralph Heinz

MEMORIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF LATE UNIV. – PROF. DR. KARL HEINZ RECHINGER

Karl Heinz Rechinger was born on October 16, 1906 at Vienna (Austria). He was the only son of Dr. Karl Rechinger and Rosa Elisabeth Rechinger née Favarger. His father was also a plant taxonomist. The principal focus of K.H. Rechinger was flora writing. He was the author of Flora Aegaea and founder and editor of "Flora Iranica". In 1929, Rechinger started to work as an unpaid volunteer in the De...

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American Pediatric Society 2007 John Howland Award recipient. Dr. Ralph Feigin.

Dr. Ralph Feigin was born in New York City on April 3, 1938. He received his A.B. degree from Columbia College in New York City in 1958 and his M.D. degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1962. He completed a Pediatric Internship at the Boston City Hospital from 1962–63 and served as a Pediatric Resident at the Boston City Hospital from 1963–64 and at the Massachusetts General Hosp...

Ralph Bergmann

An assumption commonly unchallenged in Social Media isthat its open nature leads to a representative view of the world. Thereare (at least) two issues with this assumption. The first issue is that suchrepresentativeness may be harmful and may contradict social principles,e.g. non-discrimination against women or minorities. The second issue isthat algorithms that work on such...

Ralph Adolphs

Ralph Adolphs is Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and Master’s in Biology from Stanford University, and his PhD in neurobiology from Caltech working with Mark Konishi on the auditory system of the barn owl. His post-doc was with Antonio Damasio at the Universi...